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Last week The Herald joined Bethan Beasley, national wheel-clamping manager at DVLA, as he and his staff carried out an operation in Plymouth. Cars were clamped in Lanhydrock Road among other streets and one was towed from Exmouth Road to the Plymouth DVLA pound.

The DVLA’s annual reports and accounts show that revenue from vehicle excise duty (VED) fell by £147 million from 2014/15 to 2016/17.

Paper tax discs were abolished in October 2014, leading to fears of increased tax evasion.